Charles Holder, Life in California, early 1900s

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Sport hunting became a favorite pastime of many of the more affluent settlers to California around the turn of the century. This narrative, written by Charles Holder, the son of a wealthy Massachusetts Quaker family, describes his hunting and fishing trips throughout southern California. Researchers will find vivid accounts of his travels in Santa Barbara, Los Angeles, Orange, and San Diego counties. For those seeking a better understanding of California life in the early 1900s, this can be an illuminating database.

Sources Library of Congress. California As I Saw It, 1849-1900. Vol. 31. [database on-line] Washington: Library of Congress, 1999. Holder, Charles Frederick. Life in the Open. New York: G. P. Putnam's Sons, 1906.

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